NAME INDEX
This information has been accumulated by Keith Chandler from historical sources..............
| SURNAME, forename(s) | birth | death | regular habitation | instrument(s) played / further details |
| ADAMS, George | c.1800 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| ADCOCK, William | 1819 | 1884 | Fazeley, STS | fiddle |
| ADDISON, James | 1845 | constantly travelling | ||
| ADLAM, James | c.1821 | Swaffham, NFK | ||
| AKERS, -- | c.1835 | Brize Norton, OXF | fiddle | |
| ALDER, James | 1753 | 1838 | Tubney, BKS | bass viol |
| ALDRIDGE, John | c.1830 | 1885 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| ALGAR, George | 1858 | Norwich, NFK | ||
| ALGAR, John | 1818 | 1887 | Norwich, NFK | |
| ALLEN, Henry John aka Thomas | 1850 | 1918 | Oxford, OXF | |
| ANDREWS, George | 1822 | Gateshead, DUR | fiddle | |
| ANTHISTLE, -- | c.1860 | Brackley, NTH | dulcimer | |
| ARNOLD, Benjamin | 1772 | Petworth, SSX | ||
| ARTHUR, George | c.1767 | 1836 | Ilmington, WAR | pipe & tabor |
| ARTHUR, James John | 1828 | 1906 | Ilmington, WAR | pipe & tabor |
| ARTHUR, Thomas Barnett | 1802 | 1890 | Ilmington, WAR | pipe & tabor |
| ARTHUR, Richard | 1845 | 1897 | favoured DEV | |
| ASHBY, Samuel | c.1813 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| ASHTON, Samuel Henry | 1851 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| ASTON, George Harry | c.1838 | constantly travelling | ||
| ATKINS, Alfred | 1826 | constantly travelling | ||
| ATKINSON, Henry | 1858 | 1923 | Helmsley, YKS | fiddle |
| AUSTIN, Edward | 1872 | Worcester, WOR | ||
| AUSTIN, George | 1867 | Worcester, WOR | ||
| AUSTIN, John William | 1843 | 1905 | Worcester, WOR | |
| AUSTIN, John William | 1866 | Worcester, WOR | ||
| AUSTIN, William Henry | 1874 | Worcester, WOR | ||
| AWCOCK, Albert Frank | 1884 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | fiddle / tambourine | |
| AWCOCK, Alfred | 1876 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | fiddle | |
| AWCOCK, Amos | 1869 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | fiddle | |
| AWCOCK, Arthur | 1872 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | fiddle | |
| AYLEET, Richard | c.1590 | Grant Dunmow, ESS | ||
| BADCOCK, William | c.1835 | 1912 | Dry Drayton, CAM | |
| BADHAM, John | 1743 | Osgathorpe, LEI | blind fiddler | |
| BAKER, Christopher | c.1603 | Cambridge, CAM | apprenticed to musician John BRIDGES | |
| BAKER, Henry J. | 1853 | St. Pancras, MDX | ||
| BAKER, Henry Albert | 1858 | Northampton, NTH | ||
| BAKER, Isaac William | 1856 | St. Pancras, MDX | ||
| BAKER, Joseph Edward | c.1863 | St. Pancras, MDX | fiddle | |
| BAKER, Thomas | c.1822 | 1901 | St. Pancras, MDX | harp |
| BAKER, William | c.1818 | Steventon, BKS | ||
| BAKER, William | c.1846 | favoured CRN | ||
| BAKER, William | c.1861 | St. Pancras, MDX | ||
| BALDWIN, Frederick | 1845 | 1903 | constantly travelling | |
| BALDWIN, Jeremiah | c.1815 | 1845 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| BALDWIN, John | 1630 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| BALL, George Elston | c.1815 | Leamington Priors, WAR | ||
| BAMBER, George | c.1856 | 1930 | St. Asaph, FLT | |
| BAMBRIDGE, Frederick | c.1834 | 1915 | Brighton, SSX | fiddle |
| BAMBRIDGE, William | 1785 | 1867 | Brighton, SSX | teacher of music |
| BANGAY, Samuel | c.1861 | Wolverhampton, WAR | ||
| BANNISTER, John | 1814 | 1872 | Launton, OXF | fiddle |
| BANNISTER, John W. | c.1850 | constantly travelling | ||
| BARBER, Alfred | 1838 | 1916 | Dawley, SAL | |
| BARBER, Frederick | 1844 | constantly travelling | ||
| BARBER, John | c.1854 | favoured STS | ||
| BARKER, Henry | c.1816 | Acle, NFK | ||
| BARLOW, Joseph | 1866 | Birmingham, WAR | fiddle | |
| BARRETT, John | 1825 | 1906 | Steeple Aston, OXF | |
| BARRINGTON, Richard | c.1834 | 1908 | Newport, MON | harp |
| BARTON, Edward | c.1850 | constantly travelling | travelling musician | |
| BATTS, Robert | 1796 | 1880 | Bampton, OXF | fiddle |
| BAWCOCKE, Philip | c.1571 | Anstey, HRT | ||
| BAYLIS, William | c.1861 | constantly travelling, but favoured BKS | ||
| BEARDMORE, Thomas | c.1800 | 1857 | Bodicote, OXF | |
| BELL, Edward | 1839 | 1900 | Newcastle upon Tyne, NBL | |
| BELLAMY, George | c.1854 | Hinton, NTH | blind musician | |
| BENFIELD | 1841 | 1929 | Bould, Idbury, OXF | pipe & tabor / fiddle |
| BENNETT, Robert | c.1600 | Romford, ESS | ||
| BENNETT, Samuel | 1865 | 1951 | Ilmington, WAR | fiddle |
| BENT, Frederick William | 1858 | 1916 | Doncaster, YKS | |
| BENT, Samuel | 1854 | 1877 | Doncaster, YKS | |
| BERRY, Thomas | 1838 | constantly travelling | ||
| BEST, William | c.1792 | 1839 | Brighton, SSX | |
| BETTON, -- | 1812 | Wem, SAL | blind fiddler | |
| BIDDALL, George | c.1848 | constantly travelling, but favoured MDX | ||
| BIDDALL, Henry | c.1799 | constantly travelling, but favoured MDX | ||
| BIDDALL, William G. | c.1838 | constantly travelling | ||
| BIRCH, Edward | c.1831 | 1898 | Wirksworth, DBY | |
| BIRD, William | c.1875 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| BISHOP, John | 1831 | Coggs, OXF | ||
| BISHOP, Richard | 1843 | constantly travelling | ||
| BLACKWELL, Charles | 1867 | Turweston, BKM | fiddle / tin whistle | |
| BLACKWELL, William | 1859 | 1922 | Turweston, BKM | concertina / tin whistle |
| BLAKE, James | c.1803 | 1864 | Turweston, BKM | fiddle |
| BLAKEMAN, John | 1845 | 1918 | Warwick, WAR | |
| BLEANEY, Samuel | c.1808 | 1883 | Alcester, WAR | fiddle |
| BLENCOWE, James | 1778 | 1863 | Kings Sutton, NTH | pipe & tabor |
| BLYTON, Henry | c.1838 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| BOND, Joseph | c.1837 | constantly travelling | ||
| BOOT, Henry | 1841 | 1892 | constantly travelling | |
| BOSS, Thomas | c.1818 | 1871 | vicinity of Sheffield, YKS | |
| BOTTONLEY, Henry | c.1820 | Dudley, WAR | ||
| BOUGHTON, John ('John a Stunsfield') | 1681 | 1753 | Stonesfield, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| BOWDEN, Harry | c.1848 | favoured CRN | fiddle | |
| BOWRON, Henry Charles | c.1822 | 1898 | favoured MDX | |
| BOYCE, John | 1840 | 1915 or 1917 | Brailes, WAR | |
| BOYERS, Samuel | c.1712 | 1781 | Frodingham, LIN | blind fiddler |
| BRADSHAW, -- | c.1690 | Sherborne, GLO | fiddle | |
| BRAMINSON, Samuel | c.1815 | Nantwich, CHS | ||
| BREAKSPEAR, John T. | 1854 | 1913 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| BREWER, James [Silk] | 1844 | 1871 | Chippenham, WIL | |
| BRIDGES, John | c.1599 | Cambridge, CAM | teacher of music and dance | |
| BRIGG, Joseph | 1820 | 1888 | Keighley, YKS | |
| BRITAIN, Edward | c.1845 | vicinity of Bedford | concertina | |
| BROADIS, George | c.1820 | 1865 | Brize Norton, OXF | fiddle |
| BROKENSHIR, Francis Jewell | 1781 | 1857 | Falmouth, CRN | |
| BROOK, Charles | c.1779 | 1854 | Finstock, OXF | fiddle |
| BROOKS, Alfred | c.1852 | Pentonville Hill, LDN | ||
| BROOKS, John | 1815 | 1899 | Culworth, NTH | fiddle |
| BROOMFIELD, Ninian Steel | c.1832 | 1884 | Newcastle upon Tyne, NBL | |
| BROWN, Charles | c.1875 | West Ham, ESS | ||
| BROWN, Edwin | c.1824 | 1872 | Leeds, YKS | fiddle |
| BROWN, George Hillyard | c.1833 | 1898 | St. Ives, HUN | |
| BROWN, James | 1770 | 1842 | Clipston, NTH | fiddle |
| BROWN, Joseph | c.1795 | Glasgow, LKS | ||
| BROWN, Samuel | c.1821 | Crowland, LIN | ||
| BUCKINGHAM, William | c.1754 | 1810 | Cheltenham, GLO | |
| BUCKLAND, Charles | 1845 | favoured KNT | ||
| BUCKLAND, Henry | 1813 | 1886 | constantly travelling, but favoured MDX | |
| BUCKLAND, Henry George | 1857 | 1930 | favoured MDX | blind street musician |
| BUCKLAND, Henry James | 1886 | Hackney, MDX | ||
| BUCKLEY, Benjamin | c.1832 | 1888 | favoured DBY & CHS | |
| BUCKLEY, Ernest | 1866 | Macclesfield, CHS | bugle | |
| BUCKLEY, Henry | c.1805 | favoured DBY | ||
| BUCKLEY, Joseph | 1836 | constantly travelling | ||
| BUCKLEY, Joseph | c.1846 | 1897 | Burton upon Trent, STS | |
| BUCKSEY, John | c.1717 | 1811 | Easton, HAM | pipe & tabor / fiddle |
| BUFFETT, John | c.1661 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| BUGGINS, Samuel | 1766 | 1845 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| BULLEN, Frederick Presland | c.1824 | 1891 | constantly travelling | |
| BULLEN, Frederick Presland | 1847 | 1905 | constantly travelling | |
| BUNCE, Frederick | 1880 | Islington, MDX | ||
| BUNYAN, John | 1800 | 1873 | Dorton, BKM | fiddle |
| BURGESS, Arthur James Young | 1865 | Southampton, HAM | ||
| BURGESS, William Young | c.1822 | 1888 | Southampton, HAM | |
| BURGESS, Frank Young | 1876 | Southampton, HAM | ||
| BURKE, Daniel | c.1847 | constantly travelling | ||
| BURT, William Charles Henry | 1843 | 1896 | St. Columb, CRN | |
| BUSBY, Charles | c.1821 | 1902 | Leafield, OXF | fiddle |
| BUSH, William | c.1801 | 1845 | Nottingham, NTT | |
| BUTLER, Edward | 1822 | 1894 | Minster Lovell, OXF | fiddle |
| BUTLER, Richard Decimus | 1856 | Bampton, OXF | fiddle | |
| BUTT, James | c.1814 | 1834 | Prestbury, GLO | |
| BUTTERWORTH, John James | 1861 | Newcastle upon Tyne, NBL | ||
| BUTTERWORTH, William | 1829 | 1896 | Newcastle upon Tyne, NBL | |
| BYFIELD, John | 1797 | 1872 | Marlborough, WIL | |
| CAIN, John M. | c.1836 | constantly travelling | ||
| CAKIN, John M. | c.1826 | Gaindborough, LIN | ||
| CAREY, Samuel | 1674 | 1708 | Dauntsey, WIL | fiddle |
| CARLING, Henry Todd | 1862 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| CARLTON, Francis | 1845 | 1920 | Keighley, YKS | |
| CARPENTER, William | c.1761 | 1815 | Oxford, OXF | |
| CARR, James | c.1848 | constantly travelling | ||
| CARTWRIGHT, Joseph aka Job | 1841 | 1915 | Launton, OXF | fiddle |
| CHADWICK, George | c.1830 | 1905 | Leeds, YKS | |
| CHALLIS, Henry | c.1614 | Ware, HRT | ||
| CHAMBERS, John Henry | 1847 | Newington, SRY | ||
| CHAPMAN, Henry | c.1805 | favoured SRY | ||
| CHAPPEL, Daniel | c.1836 | 1886 | Batley, YKS | |
| CHAPPEL, Francis Watson | c.1827 | 1902 | Batley, YKS | |
| CHAPPEL, John | 1834 | Batley, YKS | ||
| CHARLES, Miller | c.1811 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| CHERRY, John Henry | 1861 | 1841 | Chipping Campden, GLO | English concertina |
| CHIPPERFIELD, James William | c.1824 | 1913 | constantly travelling | |
| CHIPPERFIELD, James W. J. | c.1848 | 1917 | constantly travelling | |
| CLARIDGE, Charles | 1860 | constantly travelling | blind travelling musician | |
| CLARK, Henry | 1810 | 1882 | Cavendish, SFK | |
| CLARKE, Thomas | c.1831 | Somers Town, MDX | ||
| CLAY, Joseph | c.1661 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| CLIFF, Thomas | c.1843 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| CLOUGH, John Cooke | 1838 | favoured YKS | ||
| CLOWES, Albert Goddard | 1882 | constantly travelling | ||
| CLOWES, Edward G. | c.1871 | constantly travelling | ||
| CLOWES, John Goddard | 1844 | 1904 | constantly travelling | |
| CLOWES, John Goddard | 1871 | constantly travelling | ||
| CLOWES, William | c.1820 | Manchester, LAN | ||
| COATSWORTH, Thomas | 1851 | 1905 | Kingston upon Hull, YKS | fiddle |
| COBRICK, John | c.1811 | Deritend, Aston, WAR | fiddle | |
| COCKERILL, John Henry | 1855 | 1906 | Rugby, WAR | harp |
| CODMAN, John | c.1838 | 1889 | Norwich, NFK | |
| CODMAN, George | 1807 | 1892 | Norwich, NFK | |
| COLEMAN, Samuel Joseph | 1847 | 1883 | Nottingham, NTT | |
| COLES, Martin Thomas | 1834 | 1882 | Oxford, OXF | concertina |
| COLLOMBY, Henry Rene | c.1808 | constantly travelling | ||
| COLLYER, Samuel | c.1821 | York, YKS | ||
| COMPTON, Charles | c.1827 | Ledbury, HEF | ||
| CONIER, Victor | c.1684 | 1750 | Oxford, OXF | dancing master |
| CONNOLLY, John Hamilton | 1836 | 1887 | favoured MDX | |
| COOK, George | c.1826 | Banbury, OXF | ||
| COOK, Nathaniel | c1798 | Brighton, SSX | ||
| COOKE, Edwin | 1864 | Wolstanton, STS | ||
| COOKE, John Parker | c.1821 | constantly travelling | ||
| COOPER, George | c.1872 | Canton, Cardiff, GLA | blind musician | |
| COOPER, John | 1842 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| COOPER, John George | 1870 | Burford, OXF | ||
| COOPER, William | 1850 | favoured BKS | ||
| COOPER, William | c.1874 | Sheffield, YKS | ||
| COPPIN, Alfred | c.1831 | 1907 | Heigham, Norwich, NFK | |
| COPPIN, Frederick James | 1824 | constantly travelling | ||
| COPPIN, George Selth | c.1798 | 1854 | Purfleet, ESS | |
| CORBET, John | 1718 | 1767 | Spernall, WAR | fiddle |
| CORNWALL, George | c.1842 | Monmouth, MON | ||
| CORNWALL, Henry | c.1811 | St. Helier, JSY | ||
| CORNWALL, Staggart | c.1805 | 1855 | favoured MON | |
| COTTELL,Walter G. | c.1847 | constantly travelling | ||
| COULDREY, Thomas | 1747 | 1821 | Oxford, OXF | fiddle |
| COX, Alfred | 1843 | Finstock, OXF | fiddle | |
| COX, Daniel | 1819 | 1862 | Finstock, OXF | fiddle |
| COX, Frederick | c.1823 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| COX, John | c.1796 | 1856 | Cheltenham, GLO | |
| COX, John Thomas Vaughan | c.1834 | 1873 | Newark upon Trent, NTT | fiddle |
| COX, John | 1822 | 1867 | Cheltenham, GLO | |
| COX, Mark | 1860 | 1916 | Headington Quarry, OXF | fiddle |
| COX, William | c.1850 | constantly travelling | itinerant musician | |
| CULVERWELL, Henry | c.1836 | favoured SOM & GLO | ||
| CUMMINS, Francis | 1798 | 1885 | Marston, OXF | pipe & tabor / fiddle |
| CRABTREE, Joseph Cornelius | 1818 | 1895 | constantly travelling but favoured HEF | fiddle |
| CRACKNELL, John | 1798 | 1857 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| CROCKER, Francis Herbert | 1802 | 1879 | Madron, CRN | |
| CROSS, William | 1664 | 1706 | Witney, OXF | |
| CROSS, William | c.1852 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| CULLINS, John | c.1852 | favoured DEV | ||
| CUSSELL, Henry Matthew aka Maslin | 1844 | favoured MDX | fiddle | |
| DANBY, John Henry | 1847 | 1919 | Cambridge, CAM | |
| DANIELS, John | c.1836 | constantly travelling | ||
| DAVAGE, Frederick | c.1834 | constantly travelling | itinerant musician | |
| DAVEY, George | 1879 | Eynsham, OXF | fiddle | |
| DAVIES, Henry ('Harry the Fiddler') alias DAV alias DAVID | c.1743 | Llanafan Fawr, BRC | fiddle | |
| DAVIES, William Edwards | 1831 | 1917 | Winchcombe, GLO | fiddle |
| DAVIS, James | c.1816 | 1890 | Bromsgrove, WOR | |
| DAVIS, James | c.1821 | 1886 | constantly travelling | |
| DAVIS, Mark | 1861 | Aldershot, HAM | fiddle | |
| DAVIS, Samuel | c.1850 | Wakefield, YKS | fiddle | |
| DAVIS, William | 1796 | 1873 | Raglan, MON | blind fiddler |
| DAWSON, Adolphus | c.1830 | 1863 | Truro, CRN | |
| DAWSON, James Theophilus | 1799 | 1878 | Truro, CRN | dancing master |
| DAWSON, Richard | 1836 | Truro, CRN | dancing master | |
| DAY, Henry | 1881 | 1966 | Cambridge, CAM | tin whistle |
| DAY, John | c.1866 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| DEADMAN, Nelson Emmerson | c.1894 | 1858 | Abingdon, BKS | |
| DEAN, Robert | c.1772 | Gloucester, GLO | itinerant musician | |
| DEANE, John | c.1579 | Chelmsford, ESS | ||
| DEEKS, Thomas | c.1811 | 1884 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | |
| DEIGHTON, Joseph | c.1825 | Swaffham, NFK | ||
| DEMASKEY, Abraham | 1844 | Abergavenny, MON | ||
| DENLEY, Benjamin | 1804 | 1888 | Withington, GLO | pipe & tabor / organ |
| DERBYSHIRE, Joseph Watson | 1838 | 1890 | Newcastle upon Tyne, NBL | fiddle |
| DIX, John | 1782 | 1859 | Leafield, OXF | blind pipe & tabor player / fiddler |
| DIXON, George | 1850 | 1881 | Islington, MDX | |
| DIXSON, Shelmedan | c.1585 | Rochford, ESS | ||
| DOCKING, John Ellery | 1863 | Bodmin, CRN | ||
| DOCKING, William | 1837 | Egloshayle, CRN | ||
| DORE, James | 1802 | 1853 | Finstock, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| DORE, Stephen | 1803 | 1878 | Finstock, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| DOVER, William | 1793 | 1842 | Cuddesdon, OXF | fiddle |
| DRIVER, John J. | c.1855 | Northampton, NTH | harp | |
| DUNHAM, Arthur Alfred | 1857 | 1914 | St. Ives, HUN | |
| DUNSTALL alias CORSE, William | c.1607 | Navestock, ESS | ||
| DUNSTAN, Nicholas | 1811 | 1878 | St. Feock, CRN | |
| EALEY, Richard | c.1810 | St. Austell, CRN | ||
| EAMES, John | c.1860 | Manchester, LAN | ||
| EAST, James | 1850 | 1914 | Guiting Power, GLO | |
| EDGERTON, John Edward | 1890 | constantly travelling | ||
| EDGLEY, Thomas | c.1841 | 1923 | constantly travelling | |
| EDWARDS, John | 1856 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| EDWARDS, Richard | 1805 | 1855 | favoured WAR | |
| EDWARDS, Robert | c.1845 | Liverpool, LAN | ||
| EGERTON, Jonathan | 1805 | 1862 | favoured SRY | |
| ELDONSHAW, George | c.1844 | constantly travelling | ||
| ELLIOTT, William | 1826 | 1876 | Peterborough, NTH | |
| ELLIOTT, -- | c.1717 | Bristol, GLO | fiddle | |
| ELLIS, Thomas | 1831 | constantly travelling | ||
| ELLS, George | 1856 | 1909 | Lambeth, SRY | |
| ELY, Matthew | c.1661 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| ELY, William | c.1628 | Moulsham, Chelmsford, ESS | ||
| ENSER, Thomas | 1840 | 1873 | Kirtlington, OXF | fiddle |
| ENTWHISTLE, William | c.1784 | 1869 | Bolton, LAN | |
| EUSTACE, Albert Edwin | 1866 | Leicester, LEI | ||
| EUSTACE, Edwin | 1839 | 1889 | constantly travelling | |
| EUSTACE, Godfrey Christy | 1873 | constantly travelling | ||
| EUSTACE, John Henry | 1870 | constantly travelling | ||
| EUSTACE, Thomas | 1855 | 1903 | Aston, WAR | |
| EVANS, Barnabus | 1729 | Cowdray, SSX | ||
| EVANS, George | c.1816 | Dorchester, DOR | ||
| EVANS, Henry | 1847 | Swansea, GLA | ||
| EVANS, Joseph | 1860 | 1926 | Eynsham, OXF | tin whistle |
| EVERTON, John | 1843 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| FAIRECHILD, James | c.1684 | Cambridge, CAM | apprenticed to musician Mathew HEATLEY | |
| FARDON, Thomas | 1803 | 1887 | Woodstock, OXF | fiddle |
| FARROW, John Thomas | 1844 | 1925 | Norwich, NFK | |
| FATHERS, John | 1789 | 1873 | Marston, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| FENN, John F. | c.1838 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| FISHER, John | c.1840 | constantly travelling | ||
| FITZGERALD, Charles Robert | 1816 | 1876 | Norwich, NFK | |
| FITZGERALD, William Charles | 1850 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | ||
| FITZGERALD, William James | 1835 | 1901 | Norwich, NFK | |
| FITZPATRICK, Louis | 1853 | 1924 | Liverpool, LAN | |
| FITZSIMMONS, James | 1796 | 1846 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| FIVEASH, Edward | c.1638 | Brighton, SSX | ||
| FLEMING, Alfred | c.1832 | 1898 | Chelsea, MDX | |
| FLETCHER, George | c.1661 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| FLINN, Thomas | c.1832 | 1869 | Dewsbury, YKS | fiddle |
| FORD, Henry | c.1850 | constantly travelling | ||
| FORDS, Richard | 1824 | 1863 | Bampton, OXF | fiddle |
| FORGHAM, Samuel | 1795 | 1855 | Wem, SAL | blind fiddler |
| FOX, David | c.1804 | 1879 | Kings Lynn, NFK | |
| FOX, William Charles | c.1827 | 1899 | Kings Lynn, NFK | |
| FREEMAN, Benjamin | c.1829 | favoured OXF | ||
| FREEMAN, Clifford Ernest | 1876 | Balsall Heath, Kings Norton, WAR | ||
| FREEMAN, Henry Joseph | c.1854 | Balsall Heath, Kings Norton, WAR | ||
| FREEMAN, Joseph | c.1855 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| FRENCH, Frederick | c.1869 | Ripley, SRY | ||
| FURBER, Henry John | 1810 | 1891 | favoured MDX | fiddle |
| FURBER, Henry John | 1844 | favoured MDX | probably fiddle | |
| GARLICK, Joseph | 1785 | 1847 | Fulbrook, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| GARTON, John | c.1864 | favoured MDX | ||
| GEOGAN, B. | c.1854 | Liverpool, LAN | ||
| GIBBONS, William | c.1832 | Kings Lynn, NFK | ||
| GIBBS, Benjamin | c.1817 | 1894 | St. Pancras, MDX | |
| GIBBS, Henry | c.1806 | 1880 | St. Pancras, MDX | |
| GIBSON, Robert | c.1845 | Derby, DBY | ||
| GIDDINGS, William James | 1857 | favoured WOR | ||
| GLOSTER, Joseph | c.1815 | Powder, CRN | ||
| GOADBY, Frederick | c.1810 | 1887 | constantly travelling | |
| GOLLIDGE, Thomas | c.1593 | Ware, HRT | ||
| GOMME, Robert | 1803 | 1891 | Wheatley, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| GOODHALL, George | c.1819 | Basingstoke, BKS | itinerant fiddler | |
| GORRINGE, Charles ('Blind Charlie') | 1876 | 1955 | Fairwarp, Maresfield, SSX | blind fiddler / melodeon / ?mandolin |
| GRAY, Henry | c.1842 | 1917 | Brighton, SSX | fiddle |
| GRAY, William | 1866 | Whitehaven, CMB | ||
| GREEN, Charles | 1866 | Hackney, MDX | nearly blind street musician | |
| GREEN, Frederick George | 1879 | Sibford Gower, OXF | fiddle | |
| GREEN, George | c.1826 | Sporle with Palgrave, NFK | fiddle | |
| GREEN, Jesse | 1851 | 1920 | Sibford Gower, OXF | fiddle |
| GREEN, John | 1743/4 | 1815 | Hook Norton, OXF | blind minstrel |
| GREEN, John | 1787 | 1853 | Swalcliffe, OXF | fiddle |
| GREEN, John | c.1844 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| GREEN, Joseph | 1778 | near Littledean, GLO | fiddle | |
| GREEN, Joshua | 1822 | 1889 | Sibford Gower, OXF | fiddle / fife |
| GREEN, William | c.1846 | constantly travelling, but favoured LAN | ||
| GREENWOOD, Squire | c.1825 | Nantwich, CHS | ||
| GREGORY, John | 1848 | 1896 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| GRICE, John | c.1858 | Newcastle under Lyme, STS | ||
| GRIFFIN, Thomas | c.1790 | 1846 | Bristol, GLO | |
| HAIL, George | c1594 | not known, ESS | ||
| HALL, James | 1839 | favoured MDX | ||
| HALL, Joseph | c.1850 | favoured GLO | ||
| HALL, Richard | c.1815 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| HALL, Samuel | 1838 | Coventry, WAR | ||
| HALL, Thomas | c.1818 | 1890 | Noke, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| HALL, Thomas | c.1848 | St. Pancras, MDX | ||
| HALLS, John Sherwood | c.1843 | 1905 | Glemsford, SFK | |
| HANSELL, Thomas | c.1860 | constantly travelling | ||
| HARE, George | c.1807 | Kingston upon Hull, YKS | fiddle | |
| HARRIS, Charles | c.1791 | 1851 | Adderbury, OXF | musical instrument maker |
| HARRIS, Henry | c.1793 | Old Swinford, WOR | ||
| HARRIS, William | 1826 | 1904 | Brill, BKM | fiddle |
| HARRY, Edward Rees | 1863 | Marylebone, MDX | ||
| HARRY, Frederick Henry | 1861 | Chelsea, MDX | ||
| HART, Reuben | c.1851 | 1882 | Oxford, OXF | |
| HARVEY, Edward | c.1852 | constantly travelling | ||
| HASLER, Alfred J. | 1865 | 1915 | Northampton, NTH | |
| HASTINGS, William | c.1680 | Thame, OXF | fiddle | |
| HATHAWAY, William | 1841 | 1910 | Lower Swell, GLO | fiddle |
| HATHAWAY, William Denis | 1867 | 1926 | Chipping Campden, GLO | fiddle / Anglo concertina |
| HATHAWAY, William Leonard | 1878 | 1944 | Lower Swell, GLO | fiddle |
| HATTON, Joseph | c.1795 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| HATTON, Paul | c.1766 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| HAWKINS, Charles | c.1827 | Stoke Damerel, DEV | fiddle | |
| HAWTIN, Henry | 1826 | 1899 | Kirtlington, OXF | fiddle |
| HEAD, Dennis Murry ('Denner') | 1883 | 1969 | Uckfield, SSX | fiddle / tambourine |
| HEARD, Thomas | 1822 | 1895 | constantly travelling | |
| HEATH, Frederick K. Walter | c.1862 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | ||
| HEATLEY, Mathew | c.1680 | Whitechapel, MDX | ||
| HEMMINGS, William | 1849 | 1930 | Abingdon, BKS | melodeon / Anglo concertina |
| HENGLER, Charles Frederick | c.1820 | 1887 | constantly travelling | |
| HERMAN, Frederick | c.1775 | Arbroath, SCT | ||
| HESNIP, William | c.1834 | constantly travelling | ||
| HILL, Charles | c.1858 | constantly travelling | ||
| HILL, Thomas | 1706 | 1739 | Hempsted, GLO | pipe & tabor |
| HILL, William | c.1844 | Bethnal Green, MDX | ||
| HOARE, Samuel | 1757 | Bramfield, HRT | fiddle | |
| HOBSON, George | 1851 | Leeds, YKS | ||
| HOCKING, James | c.1822 | St. Clement, CRN | ||
| HOGARTH, John | c.1795 | Aberdeen, SCT | ||
| HOLIDAY, Samuel | c.1640 | Gloucester, GLO | ||
| HOLLIS, Charles | c.1815 | St. Austell, CRN | ||
| HOLLIS, -- | c.1835 | Brize Norton, OXF | fiddle | |
| HOLLOWAY, Edward | c.1866 | constantly travelling | ||
| HOLLOWAY, Joseph Arthur | c.1826 | Ilkeston, DBY | ||
| HONE, William | c.1750 | 1800 | Horsell, SRY | |
| HOPE, Henry | c.1817 | constantly travelling | ||
| HOOD, -- | 1586 | Abingdon, BKS | the minstrel | |
| HOOPER, William | 1836 | 1927 | Sherborne, GLO | pipe & tabor |
| HOPKINS, Charles | c.1806 | 1872 | Monmouth, MON | |
| HORABIN, Thomas | c.1802 | 1879 | Manchester, LAN | |
| HORABIN, William | 1776 | 1852 | Nottingham, NTT | |
| HORWOOD, George | c.1838 | 1914 | Chetwode, BKM | pipe & tabor |
| HOWARD, Henry | c.1852 | Crediton, DEV | ||
| HOWARD, Miller | c.1857 | Crediton, DEV | ||
| HOWLETT, Christopher | c.1661 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| HOWSE, James | c.1791 | 1865 | Spelsbury, OXF | |
| HUMPHREYS, Charles | 1848 | 1913 | Chesham, BKM | travelling musician |
| HUMPHRIS, Thomas | 1816 | 1888 | Hailey, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| HUNT, William | c.1808 | Westminster, MDX | fiddle | |
| HUNT, -- | c.1860 | Brackley, NTH | harmonica | |
| HUNTER, Robert | c.1805 | Montrose, SCT | ||
| INGHAM, Thomas | c.1833 | 1871 | Manchester, LAN | fiddle |
| IRWIN, James | 1839 | favoured MDX | bass viol | |
| IRWIN, William Henry | 1755 | Newcastle upon Tyne, NBL | ||
| ISON, James | 1826 | constantly travelling | fiddle | |
| IVINGS, William | 1806 | 1894 | Dean, Spelsbury, OXF | fiddle |
| JACKSON, John | c.1597 | Chelmsford, ESS | ||
| JACKSON, John | 1840 | constantly travelling | ||
| JACKSON, Joseph | c.1737 | 1759 | Oxford, OXF | |
| JACKSON, Joseph | c.1826 | Neath, GLA | ||
| JACKSON, Thomas | c.1811 | 1866 | Bury, LAN | fiddle |
| JACKSON, William | 1807 | 1872 | Norwich, NFK | |
| JACKSON, William | c.1872 | Goudhurst, KNT | ||
| JACOB, Joseph | c.1830 | Kings Lynn, NFK | ||
| JAMES, Charles | c.1834 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| JAMES, John | c.1742 | Llanelwedd, RAD | fiddle | |
| JAMES, John | c.1825 | constantly travelling | ||
| JAMES, John | c.1844 | Aston, WAR | ||
| JAMES, John Thomas | 1857 | Wolverhampton, STS | fiddle | |
| JARVIS, William | c.1811 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| JEFFS, John | c.1674 | Aynho, NTH | probably fiddle | |
| JEFFS, William | c.1674 | 1730 | Aynho, NTH | fiddle |
| JELFS, John | c.1807 | 1884 | Nristol, GLO | |
| JENKS, Alfred | c.1815 | Kenwyn, CRN | ||
| JENNINGS, Edward Toney | 1800 | 1878 | Dudley, WOR | |
| JENNINGS, Edwin | 1866 | Redditch, WOR | ||
| JENNINGS, George | 1839 | Dudley, WOR | fiddle | |
| JENNINGS, Jesse | 1849 | 1910 | Hailey, OXF | concertina |
| JENNINGS, John | 1794 | Dudley, WOR | ||
| JENNINGS, John alias Jack PUTT | 1850 | Steeple Claydon, BKM | fiddle | |
| JENNINGS, Thomas | 1810 | constantly travelling, but favoured WOR | ||
| JENNINGS, Thomas | 1844 | 1902 | constantly travelling, but favoured GLA | |
| JOHNSON, Benjamin | c.1796 | 1874 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| JOHNSON, Roger | c.1590 | Grant Dunmow, ESS | ||
| JOHNSON, William | c.1884 | Wolverhampton, WAR | ||
| JOLLEY, Thomas | c.1834 | 1900 | Barton upon Irwell, LAN | fiddle |
| JONES, Edward G. | 1872 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| JONES, George | c.1793 | Old Swinford, WOR | ||
| JONES, John | c.1798 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| JONES, Richard | c.1738 | Llanbedr-goch, AGY | fiddle | |
| JONES, Thomas | c.1825 | Birmingham, WAR | fiddle | |
| JONES alias BLACKETT, John Daly | 1851 | 1929 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | trumpet / piccolo |
| JONES alias BLACKETT, Walter | 1826 | 1873 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | fiddle |
| JONES alias BLACKETT, Walter George Daly | 1863 | 1912 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | |
| JONES, William | 1831 | Norwich, NFK | ||
| JONES, William | c.1863 | Bristol, GLO | concertina | |
| JONSON, Joash | c.1826 | Lanlivery, CRN | ||
| JORDAN, William | 1852 | Preston, LAN | ||
| JURY, John Henry | 1854 | 1874 | Feock, CRN | fiddle |
| KEARNS, Henry | c.1841 | 1927 | Liverpool, LAN | |
| KELLY, Thomas | c.1856 | Oswestry, SAL | ||
| KEYS, Joseph | 1830 | 1902 | Eynsham, OXF | fiddle |
| KIMBER, William | 1849 | 1931 | Headington Quarry, OXF | fiddle / Anglo concertina / tin whistle |
| KING, John | c.1795 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| KING, John | 1815 | Nottingham, NTT | music master | |
| KNISS LEIGH, James | c.1770 | Elgin, SCT | ||
| LACEY, Thomas | 1824 | 1884 | Leeds, YKS | fiddle |
| LAMB, George | 1807 | 1884 | Bourton on the Water, GLO | fiddle |
| LAMBOURNE, Arthur | 1844 | 1913 | Kirtlington, OXF | concertina |
| LAINCHBURY, John | c.1809 | 1874 | Ramsden, OXF | pipe & tabor / fiddle |
| LANGFORD, Thomas | 1796 | 1866 | Finstock, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| LATILLA, Frederick | 1849 | favoured MDX | ||
| LAW, John | c.1856 | Northampton, NTH | ||
| LAWRENCE, George William | 1854 | 1929 | Haslingfield, CAM | dulcimer |
| LAWRENCE, Herbert George | 1879 | 1947 | Thriplow, CAM | dulcimer |
| LAY, Charles | 1860 | 1944 | Bampton, OXF | flute |
| LAYLAND, Frederick | c.1820 | 1876 | favoured OXF | |
| LEARY, Dennis | c.1847 | 1905 | favoured GLA | |
| LEE, Alfred | 1841 | 1906 | favoured YKS & DUR | |
| LEE, Charles | 1842 | Winchester, HAM | ||
| LEE, David | 1834 | favoured MDX | ||
| LEE, Eugene Walter | 1848 | 1865 | Bolton, LAN | |
| LEE, Felix Alfred | 1846 | 1887 | Bolton, LAN | |
| LEE, Frederick | c.1845 | 1918 | Leeds, YKS | |
| LEE, George Frederick | 1879 | Leeds, YKS | ||
| LEE, Henry S. | 1870 | Bethnal Green, MDX | ||
| LEE, John | c.1820 | 1892 | Bolton, LAN | |
| LEE, Leo Charles Widger | 1861 | Newton Abbott, DEV | ||
| LEE, Maurice | 1870 | Leeds, YKS | ||
| LEE, Robert | c.1861 | 1897 | St. Pancras, MDX | |
| LEE, Valentine Marcus | 1850 | favoured LAN | fiddle | |
| LEE, William Henry | 1870 | Leeds, YKS | ||
| LENTON, Emmanuel | c.1838 | 1910 | Foleshill, WAR | |
| LESTER, Thomas | c.1680 | Buckingham, BKM | ||
| LETTS, Samuel | 1775 | 1856 | Leamington Priors, WAR | |
| LEWIS, John | c.1835 | constantly travelling | travelling musician | |
| LEWIS alias DOBNEY, John Burrows | c.1795 | 1842 | Martley, WOR | dancing master |
| LEWIS, John Walter | c.1826 | constantly travelling | ||
| LILLEY, William | c.1828 | 1893 | Newark, NTT | band master |
| LOMAS, Joel | c.1801 | 1882 | Quarnford, STS | fiddle |
| LONDON, Charles | c.1844 | 1913 | St. Pancras, MDX | |
| LONGSHAW, James | 1858 | 1937 | Shipton-under-Wychwood, OXF | fiddle |
| LOVATT, Walter | c.1846 | 1917 | constantly travelling | |
| LOVELL, Arthur | 1870 | St. Pancras, MDX | ||
| LOVELL, Charles | 1846 | 1901 | Shoreditch, MDX | |
| LOVELL, Horatio Lamprey | 1808 | 1857 | Shoreditch,MDX | |
| LOVELL, William Horatio | 1838 | 1885 | Shoreditch, MDX | harp |
| LUFF, George | c.1823 | 1881 | Bridport, DOR | fiddle |
| LYE, Benjamin Francis | 1814 | 1900 | constantly travelling, but favoured GLO | |
| LYE, John | c.1834 | constantly travelling | ||
| McKEAN, John | c.1824 | Edinburgh, MID | ||
| McKEAN, William | c.1830 | Edinburgh, MID | ||
| McKENZIE, Ezra De Francis | 1860 | 1935 | constantly travelling | |
| McKENZIE, John | c.1800 | Edinburgh, MID | ||
| McLELLAN, John Bunker | 1843 | 1921 | Nottingham, NTT | |
| MACE, James ('Jem') | 1831 | 1910 | travelled worldwide, but favoured NFK during his early years | fiddle |
| MACE, William | c.1816 | 1858 | Kings Lynn, NFK | fiddle |
| MAIN, John | c.1815 | Chichester, SSX | ||
| MAJOR, James | 1824 | 1904 | Winchcombe, GLO | melodeon |
| MAKEPEACE, James | 1815 | 1876 | Westbury, BKM | pipe & tabor |
| MALLINGTON, Richard | c.1681 | Bletchley, BKM | fiddle | |
| MANDER, Henry | c.1823 | 1898 | Leamington Priors, WAR | |
| MANDER, Joseph | c.1821 | constantly travelling | trombone | |
| MANDER, Richard | 1815 | 1884 | Leamington Priors, WAR | |
| MANDER, Richard Yates | 1862 | 1917 | Leamington Priors, WAR | |
| MARCHINGTON, John | 1867 | Chapel en le Frith, DBY | ||
| MARSH, James | 1804 | West Houghton, LAN | ||
| MARSHALL, Edward | c.1813 | 1883 | constantly travelling, but favoured OXF | |
| MARSHALL, William | 1778 | 1858 | Oxford, OXF | |
| MARSHALL, William | c.1795 | Milton-under-Wychwood, OXF | ||
| MARTIN, James | c.1790 | 1842 or 1844 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| MARTIN, William | 1820 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| MARTIN, William | c.1840 | constantly travelling | travelling musician | |
| MARTIN, William | c.1834 | constantly travelling | ||
| MARWOOD, George | c.1856 | 1903 | Leeds, YKS | |
| MASON, Alfred | c.1834 | constantly travelling | ||
| MASON, John | 1835 | 1912 | Church Icomb, GLO | fiddle / concertina / clarinet / flute |
| MATHEWS, Alfred John | 1841 | favoured WAR | ||
| MATHEWS, Morgan | c.1710 | Swansea, GLA | fiddle | |
| MATHEWS, Ralph Edmund | 1844 | 1910 | constantly travelling | |
| MATTHEWES, Philip | 1663 | Gloucester, GLO | ||
| MELCHIOR, John Bapist | c.1743 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| MILFORD, Thomas | c.1596 | Moulsham, Chelmsford, ESS | ||
| MILLER, Charles | 1804 | constantly travelling | ||
| MILLS, Richard | 1841 | 1920 | Marston, OXF | fiddle |
| MONK, Henry | 1831 | 1908 | Giggleswick, YKS | |
| MONK, Richard | 1826 | 1898 | Giggleswick, YKS | |
| MOORE, Frederick | 1844 | 1882 | Kings Lynn, NFK | |
| MOORE, George | c.1614 | Henfield, SSX | ||
| MOORE, Henry | c.1686 | Battle, SSX | fiddle | |
| MOORE, John | 1819 | 1884 | Wellington, SAL | |
| MORETON, John | c.1791 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| MORISH, William | c.1680 | Wellington, SOM | fiddle | |
| MORLEY, Julius C. aka Joseph | 1847 | 1911 | favoured SSX | |
| MUMFORD, Jonas | c.1635 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| MUMFORD, Stephen | c.1574 | Colchester, ESS | ||
| MUNDY, James | 1826 | 1878 | constantly travelling | |
| MURRAY, Michael | c.1822 | constantly travelling | ||
| NASHE, Christopher | c.1572 | Chelmsford, ESS | ||
| NEWBY, John | 1785 | Castleacre, NFK | ||
| NEWCOMB, Charles | 1782 | 1852 | Lutterworth, LEI | |
| NEWCOMB, Robert | 1822 | 1863 | favoured LIN | |
| NEWCOMB, William | c.1787 | 1862 | Bourne, LIN | |
| NEWCOMB, William | 1820 | 1862 | Bourne, LIN | |
| NEWSOM, George | c.1848 | constantly travelling | ||
| NEWSOM, Henry | c.1820 | Powder, CRN | ||
| NEWTON, Henry | c.1831 | constantly travelling | ||
| NIBBS, William | c.1807 | Wymondham,NFK | blind musician | |
| NICHOLSON, James | c.1787 | 1807 | Yorks, YKS | pipe & tabor |
| NIHY, John | 1827 | 1886 | Croydon, SRY | |
| NORRIS, French | c.1587 | Brentwood, ESS | ||
| NORTON, Henry | 1798 | 1861 | Norwich, NFK | |
| NORWOOD, Robert | c.1696 | Stamford, CAM | ||
| NUTT, Henry | c.1820 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| OBREE, Henry | c.1860 | Brighton, SSX | ||
| OGDEN, James | c.1805 | 1880 | constantly travelling | |
| OLIVER, William | c.1860 | Westbury on Severn, GLO | ||
| OLLEY, Thomas | c.1824 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | ||
| ORCHARD, Joseph | c.1865 | favoured MDX | ||
| ORD, David | 1824 | 1909 | Whitehaven, CMB | fiddle / mandolin |
| OWEN, Owen | c.1780 | 1862 | Leamington Priors, WAR | |
| OWENCROFT, John | 1796 | 1864 | Nottingham, NTT | dancing master |
| OWENCROFT, John Hastings Archer | 1828 | 1879 | Nottingham, NTT | dancing master |
| OXLEY, Joseph | c.1833 | constantly travelling | musician (traveller) | |
| PARKER alias BANES, John | c.1580 | Romford, ESS | ||
| PARKINSON, James | c.1608 | Moulsham, Chelmsford, ESS | ||
| PARTLETON, George Edward | 1814 | 1866 | Banbury, OXFO | dancing master |
| PARTRIDGE, Henry | 1839 | 1888 | Ross, HEF | fiddle |
| PASTON, Benjamin Tills | 1783 | 1865 | Norwich, NFK | |
| PASTON, Charles | c.1790 | 1865 | Norwich, NFK | |
| PATON, William | c.1831 | 1889 | Hull, YKS | |
| PATTERSON, George | 1773 | Alcester, WAR | ||
| PAUL, Wilson | 1840 | 1900 | Spilsby, LIN | travelling musician |
| PAULL, Thomas | 1842 | 1889 | favoured SOM & DOR | |
| PAYNE, Noah | 1781 | 1844 | Nuneaton, WAR | |
| PEACOCK, John | 1646 | Lechlade, GLO | ||
| PEARCEY, George | 1835 | 1918 | Farnham, SRY | |
| PEARMAN, Robert | 1859 | 1944 | Kirtlington, OXF | fiddle |
| PERRIN, Edward | 1836 | 1907 | Burford, OXF | |
| PERROTT, Ambrose | c.1790 | 1853 | Aston, WAR | |
| PERRY, Frederick | c.1828 | Wigton, WIG | ||
| PERRY, Frederick Oscar | 1848 | constantly travelling | ||
| PERRY, George | 1818 | 1882 | Marylebone, MDX | |
| PERRY, George Frederick | c.1795 | 1862 | Norwich, NFK | |
| PERRY, Joseph Frank | c.1827 | favoured MDX & SRY | ||
| PERRY, Oscar | c.1824 | 1854 | constantly travelling | |
| PERRY, Peter | c.1851 | Bromley, MDX | ||
| PERRY, Thomas | c.1770 | 1842 | Whitwick, LEI | fiddle |
| PERT, Eneas | 1824 | 1854 | Wantage, BKS | fiddle |
| PHILLIPS, James | c.1745 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| PHILLIPS, John | 1678 | Chipping Norton, OXF | ||
| PHILLIPS, John | 1822 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| PHILLIPS, Phillip | c.1718 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| PHILPOT, Charles | c.1738 | Lewes, SSX | dancing master | |
| PHILPOTT, Edward Acton | 1832 | 1901 | Easthope, SAL | |
| POLLEY, John | c.1597 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| POOK, William | 1809 | 1891 | Washfield, DEV | cello |
| POOLEY, John | c.1685 | Bassingbourn, CAM | ||
| PORTWAY, William | c.1823 | Monmouth, MON | ||
| POTTER, Horace Julian | 1867 | 1910 | Worcester, WOR | |
| POTTER, John | 1813 | 1892 | Sutton, OXF | pipe & tabor / fiddle / ?clarionet |
| POWELL, Joseph William | 1845 | 1937 | Bucknell, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| POWELL, William | 1830 | 1882 | Ludlow, SAL | |
| PRATT, John | c.1795 | Cambridge, CAM | ||
| PRENTICE, Thomas | c.1594 | Fryerning, ESS | ||
| PRICE, Edward | 1821 | Ludlow, SAL | ||
| PRICE, George | 1845 | 1919 | Upper Slaughter, GLO | fiddle / cello |
| PRICE, John | c.1608 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| PRICE, Thomas | c.1725 | Wem, SAL | blind fiddler | |
| PRICE, Thomas | c.1820 | 1891 | Upper Slaughter, GLO | fiddle / cello |
| PRINT, -- | c.1843 | vicinity of Moreton in Marsh, GLO | concertina | |
| PRITCHARD, Frederick Alfred | 1831 | 1884 | Hereford, HEF | fiddle |
| PROVIS alias KNIBBS, James | 1836 | 1879 | Bampton, OXF | fiddle |
| PRYCE, Alfred | 1891 | Ealing, MDX | fiddle | |
| PRYCE, Ernest | 1886 | Hackney, MDX | ||
| PUGH, John Wyatt | 1885 | 1915 | Ross, HEF | |
| PULLEN, James | c.1826 | 1905 | favoured the West Country | |
| PULLEN, James | 1863 | 1926 | Plymouth, DEV | |
| PULLEYNE, Ernest Thompson Cobb | 1858 | constantly travelling | street musician | |
| PUMPHREY, James | c.1835 | 1907 | Brighton, SSX | |
| QUICK, Edmund | 1800 | 1884 | Nottingham, NTT | dancing master |
| QUINLAN, Thomas | c.1851 | 1892 | Bethnal Green, MDX | |
| RADBAND, Thomas | 1776 | 1854 | Bampton, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| RADFORD, George | 1838 | 1904 | constantly travelling | |
| RADFORD, John | c.1834 | constantly travelling | ||
| RADFORD, William | c.1803 | 1862 | Bristol, GLO | |
| REDMAN, John J. | c.1843 | 1927 | Brighton, SSX | harp |
| REECE, John Ayton | 1848 | 1898 | Coventry, WAR | |
| REES, Nehemiah | c.1710 | Swansea, GLA | fiddle | |
| REEVE, Charlotte | c.1836 | 1899 | Lincoln, LIN | |
| REEVE, George | 1861 | 1922 | Nottingham, NTT | |
| REEVES, Thomas | c.1846 | constantly travelling | ||
| RENNEY, John | c.1842 | constantly travelling | ||
| RICHARDSON, Edward | c.1793 | Leicester, LEI | ||
| RICHARDSON, S. | c.1818 | Luton, HRT | fiddle | |
| RICHINGS, William | 1778 | 1864 | Oxford, OXF | fiddle |
| ROBERT, Christopher | c.1742 | Bulith, BRC | fiddle | |
| ROBBINS, John | 1868 | 1948 | Bidford, WAR | fiddle |
| ROBINS, -- | c.1867 | Withington, GLO | fiddle | |
| ROBINSON, John | 1818 | constantly travelling | ||
| ROBINSON, John | c.1821 | constantly travelling | ||
| ROBINSON, John | c.1841 | constantly travelling | ||
| ROBINSON, Walter | 1855 | 1917 | Barnsley, YKS | |
| ROBSON, Henry | 1805 | 1879 | Hexham, NBL | blind musician |
| ROCHESTER, John | c.1850 | favoured DUR | ||
| ROCHESTER, Michael Johnson | 1883 | Gateshead, DUR | ||
| ROGERS, Thomas | 1660 | Gloucester, GLO | ||
| ROLPH, Thomas | c.1851 | Luton, BDF | ||
| ROOKE, Harry | c.1760 | Gloucester, GLO | ||
| ROSE, William | c.1840 | Warwick, WAR | ||
| ROUSE, James | 1806 | 1893 | Alvescot, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| ROXBEE, Joseph | 1819 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| RUBERY, William | c.1812 | 1862 | St. Columb, CRN | fiddle |
| RUSHFORD, Thomas | c.1588 | St. Butolph's-without-Bishopsgate, LDN | ||
| RUSSELL, Benjamin | 1828 | Norwich, NFK | ||
| RUSSELL, Enoch James | 1821 | 1893 | Norwich, NFK | |
| RUSSELL, Enoch | c.1848 | 1893 | Norwich, NFK | |
| RUSSELL, James | c.1800 | 1862 | Norwich, NFK | |
| RUSSELL, William | c.1830 | 1873 | Holbeck, YKS | |
| SALE, George | c.1801 | 1878 | constantly travelling | |
| SANDALL, Isaac | 1810 | 1878 | Rippingale, LIN | fiddle |
| SAUNDERS, Charles | c.1880 | Lamberth, SRY | ||
| SAUNDERS, Charles Richards | 1847 | 1892 | Marylebone, MDX | |
| SAUNDERS, George | 1838 | Marylebone, MDX | ||
| SAUNDERS, James Francis | 1852 | Marylebone, MDX | ||
| SAUNDERS, James Gordon | 1876 | Lambeth, SRY | ||
| SAUNDERS, Joseph | 1817 | 1887 | Marylebone, MDX | |
| SAUNDERS, William Henry | 1840 | Marylebone, MDX | ||
| SCOTCHER, George Owen | c.1811 | 1858 | Stoke upon Trent, STS | |
| SCOTT, Edward | c.1840 | constantly travelling | ||
| SCOTT, James | c.1811 | Cowley St. James, OXF | ||
| SCOTT, Joseph | c.1826 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| SCOTT, Robert | c.1820 | Montrose, SCT | ||
| SHARGOOL, Henry | c.1806 | 1860 | Birmingham, WARS | |
| SHARP, John | c.1767 | Cambridge, CAM | ||
| SHARPE, -- | c.1835 | Dorton, BKM | fiddle | |
| SHATTOCK, John William | 1858 | 1905 | Taunton, SOM | |
| SHAW, Albert | 1855 | Shelton, STS | ||
| SHAW, Alfred | 1852 | Northampton, NTH | ||
| SHAW, Arthur | 1855 | 1929 | Hertford, HRT | |
| SHAW, Henry | c.1846 | constantly travelling | ||
| SHAW, Hugh | c.1789 | 1847 | North Shields, NBL | |
| SHAW, James | c.1766 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| SHAW, John | c.1825 | 1899 | North Shields, NBL | |
| SHAW, Thomas | 1823 | 1883 | Horncastle, LIN | |
| SHAW, Thomas | c.1854 | Canonbury, MDX | ||
| SHAW, William | 1837 | 1888 | favoured YKS | |
| SHEPHERD, Frederick | 1848 | 1926 | favoured OXF | |
| SHEPHERD, John | c.1841 | favoured MON | fiddle | |
| SHILTON, John | c.1738 | 1771 | Kintbury, BKS | fiddle |
| SHIPSTON, Edward | c.1781 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| SHORE, George | c.1827 | Bury, LAN | fiddle | |
| SHORTING, Emmerson | 1852 | 1937 | Blakeney, NFK | fiddle |
| SIMPSON/McDONALD, James | 1811 | 1856 | Sherborne, GLO | pipe & tabor |
| SINULL, Charles | c.1795 | Edinburgh, MID | ||
| SMALLEY, John | c.1794 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| SMART, William | c.1803 | Norwich, NFK | ||
| SMITH, Albert | c.1877 | Bermondsey, LDN | blind street musician | |
| SMITH, Alfred L. | c.1832 | Westminster, MDX | travelling musician | |
| SMITH, Arthur Henry | c.1863 | favoured MDX | ||
| SMITH, Charles | 1832 | favoured WIL | ||
| SMITH, Charles | c.1836 | Beckington, SOM | ||
| SMITH, Charles | 1841 | 1901 | Weston, HRT | |
| SMITH, Charles Henry | c.1862 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| SMITH, Charles William | 1884 | Shoreditch, MDX | ||
| SMITH, Dard | c.1825 | constantly travelling | ||
| SMITH, Edward | c.1810 | 1870 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| SMITH, George | c.1814 | Edinburgh, MID | ||
| SMITH, Henry | c.1841 | favoured MDX | ||
| SMITH, Henry | c.1842 | favoured MDX | blind itinerant musician | |
| SMITH, Hubert | c.1876 | East Dean GLO | ||
| SMITH, James | c.1853 | Liverpool, LAN | ||
| SMITH, James Pearson | 1830 | Liverpool, LAN | fiddle | |
| SMITH, Job | c.1829 | Bradford on Avon, WIL | ||
| SMITH, John | c.1673 | Wellington, SOM | fiddle | |
| SMITH, John | c.1781 | Great Yarmouth, NFK | ||
| SMITH, John | c.1837 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| SMITH, John | c.1845 | constantly travelling | ||
| SMITH, John | c.1850 | 1889 | Westbury on Severn, GLO | |
| SMITH, Joseph | c.1852 | Leeds, YKS | ||
| SMITH, Levi | 1831 | Old Weston, HUN | ||
| SMITH, Phillip | c.1732 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| SMITH, Rowland William | 1810 | 887 | Liverpool, LAN | |
| SMITH, Sidney Thomas Webb | c.1856 | Ross, HEF | blind harpist | |
| SMITH, Thomas | c.1821 | Bradford on Avon, WIL | ||
| SMITH, William | c.1735 | 1758 | Oxford, OXF | |
| SMITH, William | c.1866 | Radford, NTT | ||
| SMITH, Wililam Seymour | c.1836 | 1905 | Camberwell, SRY | |
| SOARS, Abraham | 1720 | Loughborough, LEI | fiddle | |
| SOARS, John | 1723 | 1760 | Loughborough, LEI | fiddle |
| SOARS, John | 1720 | Loughborough, LEI | fiddle | |
| SORBY, John | 1846 | favoured YKS | ||
| SOUTHAM alias PENN, Richard | 1805 | 1869 | Stretton on Fosse, WAR | blind musician |
| SOWTH, Walter | c.1588 | Castle Hedingham, ESS | ||
| SPANNER, John | c.1818 | 1899 | Liverpool, LAN | |
| SPENCER, W. | c.1841 | constantly travelling | ||
| SPRINGTHORPE, Joseph | 1841 | 1905 | favoured STS | |
| STANGER, Henry William | 1837 | constantly travelling | ||
| STEED, Charles Henry | 1858 | 1929 | Idbury, OXF | fiddle |
| STEVENS, James | c.1827 | Marsh Gibbon, BKM | fiddle | |
| STEVENS, James | c.1844 | Maidstone, KNT | ||
| STEWARD, Thomas | c.1820 | 1906 | constantly travelling | fiddle |
| STOCKTON, Benjamin | 1816 | 1884 | Spilsby, LIN | |
| STOKAR, John | c.1840 | constantly travelling | ||
| STOKES, David | c.1811 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| STUPARL, Frank | c.1845 | constantly travelling | ||
| STURCH, Charles William | 1860 | 1941 | Shipston-on-Stour, WOR | fiddle / banjo |
| STURCH, Henry William | 1854 | 1900 | Shipston-on-Stour, WOR | fiddle / cornet |
| STURCH, Henry ('Badrock Dirty Sugar') | 1829 | 1910 | Shipston-on-Stour, WOR | |
| SUMMERS, John Richard | 1864 | Brighton, SSX | ||
| SUTHERLAND, Walter | c.1871 | Northampton, NTH | ||
| SUTTON, Samuel | 1823 | 1900 | Bigglesward, BDF | blind musician |
| TANSEY, Rowland | c.1605 | |||
| TAYLOR, Alfred Edward | 1866 | Islington, MDX | ||
| TAYLOR, George | 1832 | Radford, NTT | ||
| TAYLOR, George | 1863 | Ardington, BKS | ||
| TAYLOR, William Henry | c.1868 | Swinton, YKS | concertina | |
| TAYLOR, William Thomas | 1853 | 1905 | Wimbledon, SRY | |
| TEAGUE, Charles James A. | 1850 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| TEAGUE, John Edward | 1841 | 1912 | Cheltenham, GLO | |
| TEAGUE, John Edward Robert | 1863 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| TEAGUE, Joseph Mill | 1845 | 1903 | Cheltenham, GLO | |
| TERRY, T. | c.1844 | Kirtlington, OXF | cornet | |
| TESTER, Lewis ('Scan') | 1887 | 1972 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | Anglo concertina / fiddle / bandoneon / melodeon / tambourine |
| TESTER, Trayton | 1875 | 1934 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | Anglo concertina / cornet / most any instrument |
| TESTER, William ('Darky') | 1888 | Horsted Keynes, SSX | Anglo concertina / fiddle / bandoneon / clarinet | |
| THEOBALD, John | c.1775 | 1848 | Streatham, SRY | fiddle |
| THOLBY, John | c.1818 | Kenwyn, CRN | ||
| THOMAS, Samuel | c.1836 | constantly travelling | ||
| THOMPSON, Henry | c.1848 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| THOMPSON, Stephen | c.1835 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| THOMPSON, William C. | c.1824 | constantly travelling | ||
| THOMAS, John | c.1716 | Carnarvon, CAE | fiddle | |
| THOMAS, John | c.1824 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| THORPE, James | 1839 | 1899 | Basford, NTT | |
| TILLER, Ambrose | c.1841 | 1897 | constantly travelling | |
| TILLER, Ambrose | c.1868 | constantly travelling | ||
| TILLER, Walter | 1866 | 1914 | constantly travelling | |
| TIMMS, Edward ('Ned') | 1792 | 1856 | Kirtlington, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| TIMMS, George ('The Bicester Fiddler') | 1814 | 1876 | Bicester, OXF | fiddle |
| TIMMS, James | 1798 | 1876 | Launton, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| TODD, John | c.1821 | Northampton, NTH | fiddle | |
| TOMBS, Charles | 1827 | 1914 | Westcote, GLO / New Zealand | fiddle |
| TOMKINS, Thomas Wilby | c.1860 | Islington, MDX | ||
| TOVEY, Francis Sebastian Ashwood | 1861 | Doncaster, YKS | ||
| TOVEY, John | c.1825 | Winchcombe, GLO | ||
| TOVEY, John | c.1825 | Winchcombe, GLO | teacher of music and singing | |
| TOWLE, Benjamin | c.1740 | Buckingham, BKM | dancing master | |
| TREADWELL, Richard | 1805 | 1881 | Cumnor, BKS | fiddle |
| TURLE, James | c.1788 | 1874 | Taunton, SOM | |
| TURLE, James Zebedee | 1819 | 1900 | Taunton, SOM | |
| TURNER, Edward | c.1795 | Sherborne, DOR | dancing master | |
| TURNER, Job | 1795 | 1862 | Birmingham, WAR | blind fiddler |
| TURNPENNY, Henry | 1795 | 1871 | Walsall,STS | |
| TURNPENNY, Henry | 1820 | 1858 | Shoreditch, MDX | |
| TURVEY, John Hilton | 1802 | 1887 | East Retford, NTT | |
| TYNDAL, -- | c.1728 | Owlpen, GLO | fiddle | |
| TYNIER, Henry | c.1820 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| UNDERWOOD, William | c.1575 | Saffron Walden, ESS | ||
| VERNON, William | 1824 | 1896 | Wheatley, OXF | fiddle |
| VOKINS, Henry | c.1830 | 1885 | Westminster, MDX | |
| VOKINS, Henru William | 1859 | Westminster, MDX | ||
| VOKINS, Joseph Macfarlane | 1866 | Westminster, MDX | ||
| WALKER, James | c.1831 | constantly travelling | ||
| WALKER, John | c.1815 | Kirkby Malzeard | dancing master | |
| WALKER, John | c.1842 | Kirkby Malzeard | dancing master | |
| WALKER, John | c.1854 | Hadleigh, SFK | ||
| WALKER, Thomas | c.1836 | constantly travelling | fiddle | |
| WALKER, William | c.1852 | Hadleigh, SFK | ||
| WALTERS, John aka WALKER | 1850 | Lichfield, STS | ||
| WARD, John | c.1741 | Loughborough, LEI | fiddle | |
| WARD, William | c.1833 | 1870 | Norwich, NFK | fiddle |
| WARMAN aka WARMINGTON, Edward | 1824 | 1875 | Brize Norton, OXF | fiddle |
| WARMAN, Frank | 1873 | Hastings, SSX | ||
| WARNER, James | c.1752 | vicinity of Chipping Camden, GLO | pipe & tabor | |
| WARREN, William | 1830 | 1874 | Chichester, SSX | |
| WARRIN, Augustine | c.1598 | Debden, ESS | ||
| WATKINS, Philip | 1848 | Cheltenham, GLO | ||
| WATTS, Francis aka Frank | c.1834 | 1894 | Buckingham, BKM | |
| WATTS, James | 1817 | 1887 | Wardington, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| WATTS, John | c.1836 | constantly travelling | ||
| WATTS, Michael John | 1858 | Buckingham, BKM | ||
| WEBB, Carl Frederick | c.1851 | 1907 | Islington, MDX | |
| WEBB, George | c.1814 | 1890 | Great Bradley, SFK | |
| WEBB, Oliver Budd | 1838 | 1917 | Longborough, GLO | fiddle |
| WELLS, John | 1802 | 1862 | Pebworth, WOR | pipe & tabor |
| WELLS, Joseph | c.1823 | constantly travelling | ||
| WELLS, Thomas | 1785 | 1861 | Charlbury, OXF | teacher of music |
| WELLS, William Nathan ('Jingy'; | ||||
| 'Jinky (the Green Pea)') | 1868 | 1953 | Bampton, OXF | fiddle / Anglo concertina / melodeon / harmonica / tin whistle |
| WELLS, William Watson | c.1826 | 1867 | constantly travelling | |
| WELLS, -- ('Fiddler') | c.1825 | Abingdon, BKS | ||
| WEST, John | c.1802 | New Windsor, BKS | ||
| WESTLEY, Henry Ephraim | 1849 | Coventry, WAR | ||
| WHEELER, Benjamin | c.1794 | 1841 | Buckland, BKS | |
| WHEELER, Charles | c.1753 | 1804 | Oxford, OXF | dancing master |
| WHEELER, Henry | c.1597 | Elmstead, ESS | ||
| WHITCOMB, Samuel | 1799 | 1864 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| WHITE, Albert Belcher ('Dashing') | 1846 | 1921 | Winchcombe, GLO | concertina |
| WHITE, Charles | c.1834 | constantly travelling | ||
| WHITE, John | c.1848 | constantly travelling | travelling musician | |
| WHITE, George | c.1820 | West Bromwich, STS | blind musician | |
| WHITE, John | c.1821 | Birmingham, WAR | ||
| WIDDOWSON, William | c.1872 | Nottingham, NTT | ||
| WIGELSWORTH, Joseph | 1818 | constantly travelling | ||
| WIGELSWORTH, Thomas | 1815 | constantly travelling | ||
| WIGFIELD, Henry | 1847 | 1929 | Walsall, STS | blind musician |
| WILCOX, John Thomas | 1849 | Shoreditch, MDX | ||
| WILEMAN, George | c.1831 | constantly travelling | travelling musician | |
| WILKES, Eli | 1841 | 1896 | Cheltenham, GLO | |
| WILKIE, Robert | 1853 | Woolwich, KNT | ||
| WILKINSON, John | c.1854 | 1894 | Burton upon Trent, STS | |
| WILLIAMS, George | c.1850 | constantly travelling | ||
| WILLIAMS, James | c.1767 | 1846 | Leafield, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| WILLIAMS, John | 1804 | 1866 | Leafield, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| WILLIAMS, John | c.1804 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| WILLIAMS, Robert | 1845 | favoured WOR | ||
| WILLIAMS, Thomas | c.1829 | Bristol, GLO | ||
| WILSDON, George | 1835 | 1902 | Woodstock, OXF | piccolo |
| WILSON, Edward | c.1885 | Thorp Hamlet, NFK | ||
| WILSON, John | c.1851 | favoured YKS | ||
| WILSON, John | c.1837 | constantly travelling | ||
| WILSON, John | c.1853 | Gloucester, GLO | ||
| WILSON, Joseph | c.1827 | 1885 | Westminster, MDX | |
| WILSON, William | 1810 | 1891 | Rippingale, LIN | fiddle |
| WILSON, William | c.1833 | Merthyr Tydfil, GLA | ||
| WINTER, William | 1774 | 1861 | Lydeard St. Lawrence, SOM | fiddle |
| WINTER, -- | c.1867 | Withington, GLO | fiddle | |
| WISE, Thomas | 1787 | 1855 | Twyford, BKM | pipe & tabor |
| WISEMAN, George | c.1825 | Kenilworth, WAR | ||
| WOODCOCK, John | c.1759 | Oxford, OXF | ||
| WOOD, Alexander | c.1870 | a wandering minstrel | ||
| WOODS, Ephraim | 1865 | Islington, LDN | ||
| WOODS, Joseph | 1812 | 1900 | Deddington, OXF | pipe & tabor |
| WOODWART, Thomas | c.1593 | Brestwood, ESS | ||
| WOOLLEY, Thomas | 1797 | 1866 or 1870 | Nottingham, NTT | |
| WOOMBELL, John | 1820 | 1866 | constantly travelling | |
| WOOTTON, William | 1768 | 1851 | Brackley, NTH | ?pipe & tabor |
| WRIGHT, William | 1835 | 1880 | Bledington, GLO | fiddle |
| WRITT, George | c.1552 | Great Maplestead, ESS | ||
| WYATT, John | 1814 | constantly travelling, but favoured DUR | ||
| WYATT, Samuel | c.1780 | 1844 | Birmingham, WAR | |
| YOUNG, George | 1838 | 1893 | Headington, OXF | fiddle |
| YOUNG, John H. | c.1837 | constantly travelling | ||
| YOUNG, Robert Allen | 1849 | 1893 | constantly travelling | itinerant musician |
| YOUNG, William | c.1788 | 1867 | Carlisle, CMB | |
| ZEDY, Lewis | c.1796 | Nottingham, NTT |